On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:59:17AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > Agreed, if it is a common sequence / requirement for filesystems > then of course I will not object to a helper to make things clearer > or share code. > > I would like to see inode_setattr renamed into simple_setattr, and > then also .setattr made mandatory, so I don't like to cut code out > of inode_setattr which makes it unable to be the simple_setattr > after the old truncate code is removed. But inode_setattr isn't anything like simple_setattr. Except for the truncate special case it's really just a helper to copy values into the inode. It doesn't even even have the same prototype as ->setattr. A simple_setattr would look like the following: int simple_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr) { struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; int error; error = inode_change_ok(inode, iattr); if (error) return error; if ((iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_UID && iattr->ia_uid != inode->i_uid) || (iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_GID && iattr->ia_gid != inode->i_gid)) { if (vfs_dq_transfer(inode, iattr)) return -EDQUOT; } if (iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_ATTR_SIZE && iattr->ia_size !== i_size_read(inode) && inode->i_op->new_truncate) { error = simple_setsize(inode, attr->ia_size); if (error) return error; } return inode_setattr(inode, attr); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html